Iris Muhammad walked out of the DeKalb County Courthouse Thursday morning, waving a stuffed manila envelope in her hands.

"This is a whitewash," she said loudly as she shook the packet.

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As a crowd gathered, another man chimed in, "It's a cover-up."

That typified the reaction of about a dozen family members to a grand jury report on police shootings in DeKalb County in 2006. That year, DeKalb police shot and killed 12 suspects, more than any other metro Atlanta department.

The grand jury found that 11 of the fatal shootings were "justified." That news brought family members to tears and prompted angry shouts for justice.

"All of us are still devastated," said Ruenell Grier, whose 22-year-old son Larry Bernard Pitts II was shot and killed in August 2006.

"We're still mourning," Pitts said, "because we were told the (shootings) were justified. Our kids are dead for no reason."

As court employees and attorneys walked by, family members of a few of the victims drew a tight circle of comfort in front of the courthouse.

Some sobbed as they spoke of their dead son, grandson, nephew or brother.

Chandra Harden came bearing photos of her son, Deon Studiemyer, 19, who was killed Aug. 3, 2006.

"How the hell do you shoot a man in the back with his back turn and it be justified," she asked. "Where's all the evidence at my son's crime scene?"

Harden said she was hoping to appeal and "turn this all over, and try to get some justice for my son being shot."

Studiemyer's aunt, Tangerla Radford, said of the report, "You going to tell me they're all justified? DeKalb County is corrupt. Nothing's changed. They're still killing people and still saying they're justified."

Mary Hines, Studiemyer's grandmother, sitting in a wheelchair, said, "He's been dead a year and seven months and we have got not one ounce of justice. We're not the only family either. There are other families that have no justice."

Some family members of the victims said they had not read the report yet but wondered why it was not larger.

"It's not thorough enough," said Iris Muhammad, mother of Abraheem Muhammad who was killed Aug. 24, 2006.

As she spoke, her daughter, Iffat Muhammad said, "How do you shoot somebody in the head who doesn't even have a weapon? But you know what? I'm not surprised."